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When I was in school I was told that I had an issue with authority. I was disruptive in classes, would constantly daydream or drift off from my studies and I reacted poorly to people telling me what to do. When I was a child who had ADHD and didn’t understand autism as much, it…

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We’ll be going a little short today with only two entries to cover but them’s the breaks of this chapter. Counting isn’t a particularly in depth look at the world of financial jobs at 10 pages, but maybe Terkel just finds math as boring as I do. Still, there’s definitely some winning equations in this…

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I am a strong supporter of mental illness being freely talked about in media. Ideally with the media itself directed by mentally ill folks or people who (at least) are heavily consulted by people who deal with mental illness. For example, if you’re going to do a show about folks who suffer from depression then…

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Have you ever heard the phrase, “too much of a good thing”? You probably have and Smart probably has too, but that doesn’t mean he kept it in mind all of the time. The tidbits about neuroscience when they matched up with the benefits of slacking were interesting and well said. Likewise, Smart’s interest in…

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For those unfamiliar there is a concept called the Panopticon which was developed by the British philosopher, Jeremy Bentham. The basic deal is that the inmates of a prison would all be watched by a single person but they would never know if that person was actually watching them or not. This would lead to…

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There are many ways in the workplace that we are contorted and twisted to be the “best” worker imaginable. Best, from the bosses standpoint of course. And from that standpoint we shall be on time, no matter if there are snow storms or not, the customer is always right (even if they’re making rude comments)…

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Right now I’m listening to a band called System of a Down. They’re a very loud, chaotic and overall disorienting band, especially if you’ve never heard them or anything like them before. A friend of mine described them as something akin to “avant nu metal” but generally it’s difficult to label SOAD as any one genre. While doing…

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The topic of mental health and work is no stranger to this site as I’ve discussed it a few times either personally or more generally. A particular phenomenon within work itself however, workaholism, hasn’t really been discussed (surprisingly) and certainly not in any detail when it comes to its correspondence to various mental health issues.…

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Reading, “The Right Not to Work: Power and Disability” I was struck in particular by the notion of shame and not working. Although I may be impaired in some sense because I have aspergers and am thus unable to cope with certain things better, I’m unsure I’d consider myself “disabled” in the sense that this…